Linux coverage.

Pushes to arch AUR are suspendended right now.

Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

Statcounter reports Linux at 10.65% of desktop usage in North America, with Cloudflare data lending further support to the milestone.…

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

Userspace macOS translation layer for Linux ARM64. Contribute to wie-project/kakehashi development by creating an account on GitHub.…

The quiet Rust migration reshaping Linux from the inside out — and why it matters for security

Ubuntu is replacing core Linux tools with Rust. Here’s how memory safety could strengthen security without breaking familiar commands and scripts.…

Linux 7.3 To Begin Laying The Groundwork For Intel Starfire

Intel recently announced Starfire as their new Panther Lake derived, space-grade SoC designed for extreme environments..…

GNOME's extension problem is worse than you think, and it's why I switched to KDE

Sometimes extensions are great; other times they're a hindrance.…

A Meta developer's Linux patch could boost Steam Deck frame rates by up to 32%

David Vernet, a Linux kernel hacker at Meta, recently unveiled a series of new patches for the open source kernel. He explained that the code is designed...…

Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

Bor v0.8.0 is out. This release adds three new policy types — Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business, and Firewalld zones — alongside a full web UI overhaul, finer-grained RBAC, …

Linux 7.3 To Support The Qualcomm Adreno 704 & Adreno 722 GPUs

Sent out on Saturday were the Qualcomm MSM DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates to land for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window.…

Linux 7.2-rc6 Fixes Some AMD Zen 5 CPUs Being Mistakenly Identified As Zen 6

Today's batch of x86 fixes for the kernel ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc6 release later in the day addresses some AMD Zen 5 processors mistakenly being classified as Zen 6.…

Box64 v0.4.4 Released With New Box64-Configurator App

Box64 0.4.4 released today as the newest version of this open-source user-space Linux x86_64 emulator for running binaries on 64-bit ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch systems.…

Linux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounter

The start of something big, or is something else affecting the numbers?…

Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple Workgroup Server 9150, the odd duck of the Wo...…

Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026 and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use.…

Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team

Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run

Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud 'Foxboron' announced today he is resigning from the project.…

Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives

Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that ha…

AMD Begins Posting Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" Linux Patches For RDNA5 GPUs

AMD closed out the month of July by posting some new AMDGPU Display Core 'DC' patches…

Ask HN: Which Linux distribution is capitalizing on AI momentum?

Lerd, an open source Herd-like PHP development environment for Linux and macOS

Open-source, Herd-like local PHP development environment for Linux and macOS. Automatic .test domains, per-project PHP/Node isolation, one-command TLS. Podman-native, rootless. - l…

AMD Publishes CDNA5 ISA Documentation For Instinct MI455X

Following last week's launch of the AMD Instinct MI455X, AMD has now kept with tradition and provided ISA documentation concerning this latest CDNA5 architecture.…

Arch Linux's AUR is under attack as malicious packages begin flooding the repository

Adoption is on pause for now.…

Linux 7.3 To Allow Tuning AMD P-State Dynamic EPP With Per CPU Core Granularity

Sent out last night was the last batch of planned AMD P-State driver feature improvements targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window.…

Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption

The Arch Linux DevOps team has announced that adoption of orphaned packages in the Arch User Re [...]…

Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted

Last month the Arch Linux User Repository 'AUR' saw more than 1,500 malicious packages amid a sophisticated malware attack and then also seeing an influx of spam and profanities am…

Valve funding port of Linux RADV Radeon Vulkan driver to Windows — cross-platform effort already runs 'Counter-Strike 2'

Long-term effort can eventually pay off big dividends.…

Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Opens The Door For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC

This week's round of drm-misc-next patches for staging ahead of the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window bring an exciting change for the open-source NVIDIA 'Nouveau' driver.…

Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2-rc6: "Far Larger Than Wished"

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE previously warned of many sound driver fixes due to AI/LLMs and a 'new normal' of patch activity as a result…

Linux Mint is suffering from nasty kernel crashes, but there's a quick way to go back

Panic no more.…

GCC, the core compiler behind Linux, draws a hard line against AI code

No AI code here, thanks.…

Linux 7.3 Will Treat Intel Nova Lake S Graphics As Stable

Ahead of the next-generation Intel Nova Lake processors expected to begin rolling out around the start of 2027, the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel cycle is going to begin treating Nova …

AMD Posts Linux Patches For HDMI 2.1 Auto Low-Latency Mode "ALLM" & VRR

Following AMD posting AMDGPU patches for HDMI 2.1 FRL support after the HDMI 2.1 open-source support was long blocked by the HDMI Forum, as part of working toward a complete HDMI 2…

AMD Zen 6 Client HSMP Patches Points To "Ryzen Master" Functionality On Linux

In an interesting twist, patches this week posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are enabling AMD Zen 6 client desktop and laptop SoCs for the HSMP driver…

Patches Posted To Improve Linux Media Acceleration On Intel Alchemist GPUs

The Intel Arc A-Series graphics (DG2) remains in a bit of an awkward state on Linux due to the transition period moving from the i915 kernel driver to more modern and feature capab…

As Linux gaming gains ground, Valve brings Mesa's powerhouse AMD driver to Windows

It can already run Counter-Strike 2.…

DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve

Sent out today was another week's worth of features and other code changes to the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver…

Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug

'I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that' is an effective sales pitch for open source…

This Linux kernel patch could give the Steam Deck a surprising performance boost

In a world where new gaming handhelds are getting increasingly expensive, this is definitely a good thing…

New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck

Improved efficiency in EPP mode leads to ~32% jump in "1% low" frame rates.…

Microsoft called Linux a cancer, and now it ships a real Linux kernel inside Windows

Microsoft loves Linux now, it seems.…

Intel Graphics Driver Support For Xe3 "Peak Bandwidth Threshold" Feature In Linux 7.3

Intel today sent out their latest batch of kernel graphics driver updates that are ready for staging ahead of next month's Linux 7.3 merge window.…

I tested a premium Linux laptop that's as light as it is powerful - here's why I love it

The Ar Gen 1 is an impressive device, suitable for anyone from students to developers to business owners.…

I tried ArchEZ to see if it really makes Arch Linux easy for beginners - and it delivered

Arch Linux doesn't have to be challenging, and ArchEZ proves that point with point-and-click ease.…

Vibe Coded X11 YSERVER Gets Steam Working, Full-Screen Games With Cinnamon

A new software creation that debuted this summer was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust largely by AI via Claude Code…

This app that makes Arch Linux easier to use just got its 'biggest release yet'

Managing your packages is simpler than ever before.…

ARCTIC Launches Its New Fan Controller That Already Has Mainline Linux Support

In over 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and testing at Phoronix, I have never been more excited for a fan controller..…

Hulios: An eBPF-powered, transparent Tor gateway for Linux

A Rust-based transparent Tor proxy that routes all system traffic through the Tor network enhanced security, proper DNS isolation, and modern Linux compatibility. - ghaziwali/Hulio…

[$] Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs

GOG is finally bringing its all-in-one Galaxy launcher to Linux

Gaming on Linux just keeps getting better.…

How Do I Profile eBPF Code?

If we are running any eBPF workload or writing eBPF code, we want to measure its performance impact, and in this post we will demonstrate an example of how to do it. In this exampl…

Starling: A New Linux Desktop Written In Swift, Own Wayland Compositor & Written With AI

There's yet another new open-source desktop option for Linux users in the era of new open-source projects largely written via AI/LLMs…

When AI Makes 0-Days Feel Like N-Days

Lessons from my first Linux kernel 0-day, exploitation, and why deep subsystem knowledge still matters.…

AMD P-State Linux Driver Patches Can Boost 1%-Low FPS Gaming Performance By 31%

A set of patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list implement per-core Energy Performance Preference (EPP) boosting for recently-busy CPUs…

Linux's crypto_rng Abstraction Layer Next On The Chopping Block

In addition to the deprecation and stripping down of AF_ALG, another piece of the Linux kernel crypto code steaming ahead toward removal is the crypto_rng abstraction layer.…

ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux

ASUS laptops support a feature called 'Whisper Mode' that intentionally slows down the fan speed and lowers the CPU clock speed in order to keep the device running cool and quiet…

Show HN: Krate, AI-made apps as permissioned files for Mac, Windows, and Linux

Make apps with AI. Share them as one file that opens on Mac, Windows, and Linux, with access shown before it runs. - incyashraj/krate…

AMD PMF Testing Tool Slated For Linux 7.3

Looking to be added to the Linux kernel source tree for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle is test_amd_pmf, a small testing application for exercising the AMD Platform Management Framewo…

UBEL: Free SCA, dependencies/Linux packages/Docker firewall,and AI-assisted SAST

Ubel is a fast, cross‑ecosystem security engine that resolves dependencies, generates PURLs, scans them through OSV.dev, and enforces security policies during installation to preve…

Open Secure AI Alliance aims to open-source AI security defences

A new group of major firms, the Open Secure AI Alliance, are setting out to build open-source AI tools for security defences.…